About Laure specializes in curatorial projects, advising cultural institutions on partnerships as well as the organization of art related events. With a commercial and institutional background, she has a broad network in the cultural field.
Laure Decock (Kortrijk, 1990) is an independent curator and creative consultant. She studied history of Art at Ghent University and has worked in a commercial position at several contemporary art galleries such as Almine Rech Gallery, Albert Baronian, Axel Vervoordt and Meessen Declercq. With a group of fellow students she founded the S.M.A.K. young friends. She has worked on partnerships and events at WIELS. Laure was a founding member of ELDERS Collectiefand cultural advisor to the Dutch embassy in Belgium.
Together with Evelyn Simons she founded RendezVous - Brussels Art Week,a new organisation celebrating the richness and variety of the contemporary Brussels art scene. This annual event takes place mid-September, and unites the city’s many contemporary art galleries to collectively celebrate the kick-off of the artistic season.
TK / 1962
From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Yet one standard product of the scientific enterprise is missing. Normal science does not aim at novelties of fact or theory and, when successful, finds none. New and unsuspected phenomena are, however, repeatedly uncovered by scientific research, and radical new theories have again and again been invented by scientists.
The practice of normal science depends on the ability, acquired from exemplars, to group objects and situations into similarity sets which are primitive in the sense that the grouping is done without an answer to the question, “Similar with respect to what?” One central aspect of any revolution is, then, that some of the similarity relations change. Objects that were grouped in the same set before are grouped in different ones afterward and vice versa. Think of the sun, moon, Mars, and earth before and after Copernicus; of free fall, pendular, and planetary motion before and after Galileo; or of salts, alloys, and a sulpuhur-iron filing mix before and after Dalton.
